The name "half-fish" sounds weird. Indeed, it has a peculiar and distinctive appearance. The body is raised and scaled; while the other side is flat, smooth and scaleless, so it looks like half the body. The fish, hence its name.
As we all know, in people's minds, 鸳鸯 is a symbol of beauty and love. They are always paired and paired together, and they are always inseparable. Therefore, people often use 鸳鸯 to describe the loyalty of love. The half fish is also like a cricket, male and female fish always live together in love with each other. What's even more interesting is that when they encounter rapids on the move, males and females cling to each other on the leveling side of the body, and the two fish merge into one and work hard to go upstream. One of the fish does not move, and the other fish will never leave alone. Therefore, the locals have circulated praise verses in which “love should be like a half fish†in order to show that people are loyal to their love, and are prostrate.
In the area of ​​Huaping National Nature Reserve in the northwest of Guangxi, there is a strange half-fish. Its body is raised and scaled. The other side is flat, without scales, bare. Half of the fish have the habit of male and female pairs of activities, when the rapids, the two sides of the fish will be smooth close together, into a fish, and work together to countercurrent. Half of the fish is delicious, often stolen and threatened with extinction.